1. Explore
Do you think that this situation is fair?
Can you think of circumstances under which this would be fair/unfair?
Do certain circumstances merit special treatment? Why?
Scenarios
1.	The class has been given a geography test. Kim has been given 10 minutes extra and is allowed to use a dictionary. Kim has recently arrived in Australia and has difficulty speaking, reading and writing in English.
2.	The teacher gives a maths test. Each student has 30 minutes in which to complete the test except Mary. Mary has been absent often recently and she is allowed 45 minutes. 
3.	The teacher lets Robert, who is on crutches, leave the class and go to lunch ten minutes before any other student.
4.	An interpreter has been employed to help James in the classroom. James is deaf.
5.	The teacher spends more time helping some students than others.
6.	The school has introduced a new school policy. Under no circumstances are students allowed to wear hats or other head gear in the classroom.
7.	Your school decides that it wants to have the same number of sports teams for girls and boys. To increase the number of girls’ teams, the school plans to take money from the boys’ program.
8.	The school has organised a year camp for the students. The cost of the camp is quite expensive, but the Principal has said that the school will help pay for students whose families are having financial difficulties.
9.	This scenario is easily adaptable from gender to race. 
10.	Often in the past, women have been discriminated against in education and employment. It has been particularly difficult for women to enter certain occupations (e.g. law, construction, medicine) and to progress. Men have often tended to hire and promote men rather than women. Should we now discriminate against men to give women a chance to catch up?
11.	Newspaper, television and radio current affairs items relating to issues such as immigration, family reunions, refugees, asylum seekers and social security payments also lend themselves to guided discussion.